LBS Level: 5
Demonstration Title: Taking Entry Level Tests
Additional Skills
Communications and Mathematics Academic Skills Inventory
The following list of skills is taken from the Evaluating Academic Readiness for Apprenticeship Training1 (EARAT) under Academic Skills Inventory for Construction & Maintenance and Industrial Electrician Apprentices. These are skills not specifically listed in the LBS Learning Outcomes, but are skills that learners will need to successfully complete the demonstration activity. NB: The demonstration activity is linked to LBS Level 5 skills, and is an appropriate for learners at that level.
| COMMUNICATIONS | |
|---|---|
| Communication Skill | Skill Descriptor |
| Vocabulary/Word Attack Skills | Define or identify correct usage of trade-related or trade-specific terminology. |
| Sequencing | Identify errors in sequencing or information; insert new information into the correct place in a given sequence. |
| Restatement/Rephrasing | Identify restatement of information; translate nonnarrative information into narrative descriptors. |
| Interpretation of Diagrams | Identify correct interpretation of a diagram; identify most appropriate diagram representation of information presented in narrative material. |
| Detail Extraction | Select specific details from passage or non-narrative reading material. |
| Classification | Select information based on given criteria; identify
information that matches given criteria; based on
specific attributes, identify categorical grouping for several pieces of information; identify errors in groupings based on specific attributes. |
| Evaluation of Information | Distinguish between statements of cause and statements of effect; distinguish between statements of fact and statements of opinion. |
| Comparisons & Contrast | Identify similarities and differences between two bodies of information; select most appropriate response among several alternatives based on given criteria; identify errors in comparisons based on given criteria. |
| Making Predictions | Identify most probable outcome of a given body of information; identify conditions necessary for a given outcome to occur; identify most probable effect of additional information on a given body of information; identify reason(s) why a given outcome is not probable. |
| Synthesis of Information | Combine several pieces of information within the body
of the given material for the purpose of classification,
evaluation, comparison, drawing conclusions or
making a prediction; combine several pieces of
information within the body of the material with new information for the purpose of classification, evaluation, comparison, drawing conclusions or making a prediction; prioritise several pieces of information; identify a pattern found in several pieces of information. |
Return to note 1. Workplace Support Services Branch, Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities.